85 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 85 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 85 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (61) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 85 Avenue, with 229 reports. Across every category, 512 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (64 reports) and residential noise (59). In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on 85 Avenue. About 71 reports per 100 homes sit on 85 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 85 Avenue carries 23 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 85 Avenue, 25 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (16 violations) and bed bugs (12). City housing records put 717 homes in 389 residential buildings on 85 Avenue, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 85 Avenue ranks 59 on housing and 12 on parking. 85 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 42 and traffic safety at 28. Transit ranks 40 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 85 Avenue, at 97. 85 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 85 Avenue is quietness, at 61.
12% of the 717 homes recorded on 85 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 85 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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85 Avenue runs through Jamaica Hills, Richmond Hill and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).